Brood War History part2

Part 2 done. Includes all KBKs, WCGC, Sports Seoul and all the LAN Arenas. As in the post before there are also many multirace players here. Many of these went one race only at later points. Notables:[GG1]ElkY[GG2]Shadow[GG8]sVEN@aBs[GG99]Slayer)Si(SaFTX'Ds~Grrrr...D22-SoSoMultifaithMaynard[GG10]Storm-[SDT][9]eVERLAST~jolly~TillerMaNIN-Agent911[9]Thor:+:Kevin:+:{iM}Daaman[GG21]ScReaM(orky)Asmodey[DEF]Rookie)Si(KeNKaKisS)TaeWoO

The Sports Seoul Tournament - August-September 1999Over a period of 4 weeks, over 2000 brood war competitors battled it out live in PC internet game rooms throughout South Korea recently for a chance to win US$25,000 in The '99 The Daily Sports Seoul Cup World Game Champion Tournament. Among those players were 10 international players including Starcraft season 2 battle.net ladder champion [9]eVERLAST, PGL season 3 champion Gadianton, Brood War season 1 Battle.net champion D22-soso, Brood War Season 2 Battle.net champion SSamjang[sg] and PGL season 4 champion + Battle.net world champion, X'Ds~Grrrr.... The tournament ended in the convention room of the prestigious Lotte hotel where an international player and a Korean player faced off in a 1v1 final pumped with excitement.

All the players who had participated in the 2 PGLs were invited. The tournament was held live between August 15 and August 18 1999. Prizes were distributed as follows #1 $25,788.70, #2 $12,894.35, #3 $4298.11, #4 $1719.24, #5-#8 $859.62, #9-#16 429.81.

Tournoi de France i2e2 - October 1999This was a 60 player live tournament held in France. Famous players X'Ds~Grrrr... and Thor flew from Canada to attend the tournament. They found the local players to be quite challenging competitively. It was arranged that if Grrrr won the event he were to receive no prize-money but his trip there would be sponsored by the organizers(ParKAge).

Grrrr blogNice Grrrr "blog" where he posts some of his experiences from varioustournaments. Among others:- his loss to maynard in canada vs USA racewar- his journey to korea where he placed 2nd in sports seoul after )DL(October- world championship final vs [B_Blade]LeadeR- paris tournament

I enjoyed his reports from the game against [GG2]Shadow in paris i2e2 eventand from his game against Multifaith in the Sports Seoul tournament.Also his thoughts on losing to Maynard in the CAN vs USA tournament.

The 1999 i2e2 Starcraft.org Brood War Invitationals - November 1999StarCraft.org teamed with i2e2, the standardising body for all competitive gaming, to bring you both a 1v1 tournament and a 2v2 tournament to kick start i2e2's ongoing Brood War 1v1 and 2v2 tours and world rankings. With a total prize pool of over US$13,000 for this tournament alone we were able to bring you detailed coverage of the hottest 1v1 and 2v2 Brood War players in action. The results of the 1v1 tournament and the results from the 2v2 tournament even have battle reports for some of the matches from our volunteer referees

5th clan site - same clan as [5th]Fire and Multifaith ([5th]Faith) who were the best swedish bw players in 1999. [5th]Fire obtained #1 on the B.net BW-ladder and finished #2 in the season 2 playoffs after SSamjang. Multifaith won the Swedish championships vs Straylight ([5th]Wind) in the final. Multifaith formed the team {iM} with Daaman when Fire and Straylight retired in 2000.Link to the site:http://hem.passagen.se/atlas2/Archive.htm

Didnt find more information on that. ElkY has mentioned he was #2 in thisin interviews.

KBK Masters 2000 Brood War TournamentThe KBK Masters 2000 Brood War Tournament is the mother of all starcraft tournaments. This is the first time that so many starcraft players from all around world will compete in a single live tournament for a share of so much prize money. It's also the first time a tournament operator has offered to pay for the airfares of contestants who qualify online within the top 32 so that they can attend the live phase of the tournament. Anyone with brood war and an internet connection is eligible to qualify for the live tournament finals in Korea scheduled for January the 23rd. Players can register here for the KBK ladder (costs US$10). Once registered, just like the regular Brood War Battle.net ladder, every time you play starcraft online you'll have the added excitement of knowing that if you can qualify within the top 128, you'll be invited to compete in the live finals in late January. Even if you're not sure if you have what it takes to be among the starcraft elite, there is no better way to improve your starcraft skills than to register for the KBK and compete among the world's best starcraft players. The prize distribution in US dollars for the 1v1 section of the KBK Masters 2000 Brood War Tournament is approximately as follows:1st: $8,748.912nd: $2,624.673rd: $874.894th-8th: $262.479th-16th: $87.49

- The "Starcraft Masters 2000" included over 49,000 single players, over 980 groups, and the first world women single competition with players over 1,200. These facts made the world eyes gather to Intercontinental Hotel, Seoul to check who is the best in Starcraft.

Broodwar.com 256 man tournament - August 2000i2e2, a division of zupit.com, is the first standards body for organized gaming and is solely sponsoring our 256 player Brood War tournament. Broodwar.com has waived the entrance fee of the tournament and made it free to all participants. A refund will be issued to all who have already paid in cash. Checks will all be voided.

Players will be competing head-to-head over Battle.net for a chance to win a part of the $1500 USD in cash (subject to income taxes). All 256 players have been chosen accordingly as follows: 64 spots were reserved for those players who have already paid, and the remaining 192 players were chosen by priority based on signup date.[/B]i2e2 Starcraft 1 vs 1 Prizes[/B]:First Place $800Second Place $4003rd Place$2004th Place $100Total Cash $1500

KBK StarCraft Masters 2000, Season IIThe preliminaries are due to begin at midnight April 9th (Korean Standard Time) or 7am April 8th (Pacific Time). The season is scheduled to span approximately a month and a half. The location of the live main event will be posted soon and is scheduled to be held within a week of the closure of the season.

Registration will be taken through their official tournament website www.kbk21.com. Registration fee will be free for participants playing from their member PC game rooms. A fee of 10,000 won (US$ 9.00)(singles) and 20,000 won (US$ 18.00) (team) will be charged to all those residing in Korea and not playing from our PC game rooms. Overseas participation is also welcome. A registration fee of US$ 5.00 will be charged for the singles categories and US$10.00 for the team categories.

*1st,2nd,3rd and 4th earned WCGC spots in this event.*ElkY plays RvR against Slayer in the first round of the winners bracketand wins two ZvZs.*ChobO also beats Slayer in RvR games in the loser bracket - T(ChobO) vs Z(Slayer) on LT & Z(ChobO) vs P(Slayer) on Rivalry.

* ElkY and Slayer shared the first place and the winnings**ElkY and Slayer got $ 1500 each, while Scream and Asmodey got $ 500 each.***Tourney didnt finish because Asmodey had to catch his plane. Asmodey went on a small rant over this when he got home.

EDIT: Fixed some typos, added flags on WiLLEt and WhiZ, added Mr.X into top 8 KBK#1, also clarified who was playing which race in ChobO vs Slayer from the Paris tournament. Putting a "not confirmed" on Mr.X in top8 as the original news from SC.org states that he only got into RO16.

Awesome job this research ! Good to see some of the old legends. TheMarine was the "great" terran before Boxer became big, and I always considered [GG99]Slayer to be one of the most solid terran players around (even though he was random I think) - don't know why he "retired" relatively fast. Also gotta love NTT

This is so funny and interestin. Especially the blogs and Slyers guide to tvp <3

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